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Canada's COVID Alert app will be discontinued as PCR testing becomes rare
The app was launched in the summer of 2020 as the pandemic began and billed as a way to alert people if they've been in close contact with someone who's been infected with COVID-19, without collecting personal data.
The (pharmaceutical) funny pages: You give me fever
You weekly dose of silliness! Take two, or even three, as needed.

B.C. Greens launch hearings on healthcare 'crisis'

With record numbers of British Columbians without a family doctor, the toxic drug crisis and questions about pandemic and lack of integrated mental health care, the Greens say urgent action is needed.
Canadian heading World Health Organization's fight against monkeypox

Dr. Rosamund Lewis, the WHO's technical lead for monkeypox, grew up in Thunder Bay, Ont., and Ottawa before studying medicine at McGill University.
Ontario pharmacist aims to launch first Metaverse pharmacy

AI-enabled platform to allow one-on-one virtual consults and medication tracking.
Health Canada approves experimental ALS drug still under U.S. review

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals said in a press release Monday that Canada is the first country in the world to give the regulatory greenlight for Albrioza as a treatment for the devastating neurodegenerative disease.
Whether racism is ‘shocking’ stirs colleges of physicians and surgeons national meeting

FMRAC meeting in Quebec City debates ‘eradicating Indigenous-specific and other forms of racism’
East coast pharmacies still suffering from cold and pain medication shortages

Pharmacies on the East Coast are still struggling to stock cold and pain relief medication and other drug shortages.
Toronto to offer monkeypox vaccine clinics targeting high risk communities

Toronto Public Health says there are 11 confirmed cases in the city as of Saturday, two higher than the provincial total of nine released a day earlier by Canada's chief public health officer when she reported a national case count of 112.
Saskatchewan's top doctor given honorary degree from University of Regina

Now, 26 years after he last put on a sash to get his masters at Johns Hopkins University, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer walked on stage Friday to accept his own honorary degree.